A Copper Harvest, or, The Boys who Worked a Deserted Mine

Excerpt: '“He’s the most lifelike corpse I ever saw in my life, and I’ve seen several in my time, said Jack Howard, a stalwart, bronze-featured boy of seventeen. He looked down at the body stretched out on a slate slab in the center of the little surgery at the rear of Dr. Phineas Fox’s drugstore in the town of Sackville, Neb. “He certainly does look natural—not at all like the usual run of subjec...